Tie and rail-fastener.



In lieu of making one of the ends of the bolt hook-shaped, both ends of a bolt 30 can be threaded, as illustrated in Fig. 7 and nuts and washers mounted upon the ends of the1 bolt to engage the base flanges of the m1 In .Figs. 4 and 8 there is illustrated a modification of the invention, wherein a tie of the I-beam construction is employed, the tie being designated 27 and having the top flanges 28 thereof provided with openings 29. These openings are adapted to receive the ends of bolts 31 similar to the bolts 15, and interposed between said bolts and the under sides of the flanges 28 are shoes 32 very similar to the retaining members 8 of the preferred form of construction.

In Fig. 8 the fastener consists of hook- .aped bolts 33 having the lower threaded e ds provided with nuts 34. From the foregoing it will be observed that I have devised a tie having the requisite bearing surface for the support of rails, and that the surface affords a sure and ready means for embedding the casings, which constitute chairs for firmly supporting the rails. The rails can be 'easily installed by unskilled labor and can be readily tamped in a roadbed.

\Vhat I claim is t The combination with rails, of a concrete tie, casings embedded in said tie and having the end walls thereof provided with webs and plates adapted to anchor said casings in said tie, curved bolts arranged within said casings and having hook-shaped ends adapted to engage the flanges of rails mounted on said tie, and means including nuts mounted upon the opposite ends of said bolts and adapted to retain saidbolts in engagement 40 with said rails.

InVtest-imony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE J. SPIGKERMAN.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM L. SMITH, Jr., LILLIAN MANSFIELD. 

